Omnia 6 Use and Installation Guide – Version 1.00a
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Initiating Trigger Scripts via the Interface Connector
As we mentioned, trigger scripts give the user the ability to tie a series of commands to a simple high/low
logic change occurring on a pin of the 9-pin D-sub Interface connector on the unit’s rear panel. The pins on
the Interface connector are assigned as follows:
PIN 1 - activates Trigger Script 1
PIN 2 - activates Trigger Script 3
PIN 3 - activates Trigger Script 8
PIN 4 - activates Trigger Script 6
PIN 5 - is connected to ground
PIN 6 - activates Trigger Script 2
PIN 7 - activates Trigger Script 4
PIN 8 - activates Trigger Script 7
PIN 9 - activates Trigger Script 5
Each pin that is to be used must first be programmed with a trigger script for the desired Go High and Go
Low logic. To execute the Go Low script, a trigger input pin is connected via a sustained contact closure to
pin 5 (ground). To execute a Go High script, the ground is removed from that pin. Each of the trigger pins
(1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9) is thus connected through a switch or relay to the Omnia-6’s ground on Pin 5.
Let's review what we created for the example we showed you under "Using the Script Editor". Whenever
pin 1 is held low (the contact or switch is in a closed state), the Omnia-6fm will switch to and stay in mono
mode (no Pilot and only the left input channel is used). When the pin 1 contact is subsequently opened, the
Omnia-6fm will switch back to and stay in stereo operation (pilot on and both left and right input channels
being used) as long as the contact is open.
"One Way Script" Functions
You may also create scripting functions that do NOT return to another value when the remote contacts are
opened. To do this, you use the Go LOW script only, and do not put any entries into the Go HIGH script.
Two possible uses for this very useful "Go LOW Only" Trigger Script trick are periodically setting the
Omnia's system time to an external standard, and remote re-booting of the Omnia.
To use the Omnia's command line "Time" function to reset the Omnia's System Clock to midnight based on
an external contact closure (such as from an automation system or other time reference), the script syntax
would be:
Time 00 00 00 Sets the Omnia time to midnight. Note that colons are not
used as delimiters in this entry!
Although time is displayed by the front panel display and its controller, it is actually being kept by the
Omnia motherboard. When resetting the System Time using trigger scripts, the change takes effect
immediately. However, because the front panel 'fetches' time synchronization from the motherboard every
